mediated

[ mee-dee-ey-tid ]
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adjective
  1. (of disputes, strikes, etc.) settled or resolved with the help of an intermediary:In the 15 years in which he has served as a mediator, he has settled over 90% of his mediated disputes.

  2. (of an agreement, truce, settlement, etc.) brought about with the help of an intermediary between parties:A mediated divorce is much cheaper than negotiating through lawyers or going to court.

  1. indirectly experienced, effected, or conveyed; happening by means of or through someone or something else:I see technology as any mediated form of communication, rather than face-to-face communication.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of mediate.

Origin of mediated

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Other words from mediated

  • un·me·di·at·ed, adjective

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How to use mediated in a sentence

  • The writer wants to believe his genius is arriving, pristine, unmediated, to his readers all over the world.

    The Best of Brit Lit | Peter Stothard | April 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Readers, wherever they are from, want to feel that they are in direct, unmediated contact with greatness.

    The Best of Brit Lit | Peter Stothard | April 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Whatever his religion, he is morally authorised to labour against these unmediated evils with the heartiest intolerance.

  • But at the end we must confess that the notion of real cognition involves an unmediated dualism of the knower and the known.

    The Meaning of Truth | William James